英语词汇“to number off”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. transitive. to number off (originally and chiefly Military): to assign a number to (each of a group of individuals), esp. for the purpose of splitting a group into smaller ones; (also, intransitive of the individuals concerned) to call out in sequence the numbers to which their particular places in a line, etc., assign them.

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1844 Athenaeum 7 Dec. 1115/2 The corps formed one entire regiment, numbered off by battalions.

1846 M. B. Betham-Edwards Diary 25 Dec. in Southwestern Hist. Q. 4 (1936) 231 Our line had been numbered off—one, two—with orders that number two reserve its fire while number one fired, and while reloading, number two fire.

1893 N.E.D. at Countermarch sb. It is now superseded by ‘changing ranks’, in which the whole simply face about, and number off anew, the rear rank then becoming the front.

1932 T. E. Lawrence tr. Homer Odyssey x So I numbered off my mail-clad followers and divided them into two sections, each with its leader.

1937 D. M. Jones In Parenthesis v. 121 After you've numbered-off you can wait ten minutes in the driven rain.

1990 C. Francome Colin Clown's Party Bk. 59 The children stand around the leader in a semi-circle and are numbered off until the last two become Jack and then King or Queen.

单词	to number off
释义	> as lemmas to number off b. transitive. to number off (originally and chiefly Military): to assign a number to (each of a group of individuals), esp. for the purpose of splitting a group into smaller ones; (also, intransitive of the individuals concerned) to call out in sequence the numbers to which their particular places in a line, etc., assign them. ΚΠ 1844 Athenaeum 7 Dec. 1115/2 The corps formed one entire regiment, numbered off by battalions. 1846 M. B. Betham-Edwards Diary 25 Dec. in Southwestern Hist. Q. 4 (1936) 231 Our line had been numbered off—one, two—with orders that number two reserve its fire while number one fired, and while reloading, number two fire. 1893 N.E.D. at Countermarch sb. It is now superseded by ‘changing ranks’, in which the whole simply face about, and number off anew, the rear rank then becoming the front. 1932 T. E. Lawrence tr. Homer Odyssey x So I numbered off my mail-clad followers and divided them into two sections, each with its leader. 1937 D. M. Jones In Parenthesis v. 121 After you've numbered-off you can wait ten minutes in the driven rain. 1990 C. Francome Colin Clown's Party Bk. 59 The children stand around the leader in a semi-circle and are numbered off until the last two become Jack and then King or Queen. extracted from numberv. < as lemmas
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